Moving from C Code Generation to C++ Code Generation: Basic Swap Example, Code Generation for the Pointer Swap Function, Code Generation for the C++ Version Of Swap Using References, Which Are Treated as Automatically Dereferenced…

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1. Administrative Details, Exams - Time limit, Conflicts, Course Grade Breakdown, Assignment Details - Submission, Grading, Late Days, Course Email, Newsgroup, Facebook/Twitter, Mailing List, Course Prerequisites, Languages and Paradigms… 18 min · Video
2. C/C++ Data Types - Interpretations, Sizes, Bits- How Bytes are Broken Up into Bits, Breaking Up a Character's Decimal Value into its Underlying Bit Structure, Shorts - Interpreting Data that Consists of More Than One Byte, Representations… 51 min · Video
3. Converting Between Types of Different Sizes and Bit Representations Using Pointers, Little Endian vs. Big Endian, Structs: How the Data of a Struct is Stored, Accessing the Data of a Struct, Arrays, Pointer Arithmetic on Arrays, Result of… 53 min · Video
4. Creating a Generic Swap Function for Data Types of Arbitrary Size, Void* Type for Generic Pointers, Implementation of Swap Function Using memcpy, Client Interface to Generic Swap Function, Pros and Cons of C Generics vs. C++ Generics,… 51 min · Video
5. Generic Lsearch - Prototype, Comparison Function, Implementation, Casting Void*S to Char*S to Compute Byte Offsets, Client Use of Generic Lsearch, Example of a Comparison Function for Integers, More Complicated Data Types and Lsearch-… 52 min · Video
6. Integer Stack Implementation - Constructor and Destructor, Stackpush Implementation, Reallocation of Memory when Stack Grows Too Big Using Realloc, How Memory is Copied Using Realloc, Stackpop Implementation, Reimplementing the Stack… 51 min · Video
7. Problems with Ownership of Memory, How Default Implementation of Stackdispose Does Not Free Dynamically Allocated Data, Adding a Free Function to the Stack Implementation, Rewriting Stackdispose to Incorporate It, Writing a Free Function… 53 min · Video
8. Heap Management - How Information about Allocations are Stored in the Heap, Result of Freeing Memory Improperly, Actual Sizes of Heap Allocations - Nearest Power of 2, Management of Free Blocks on the Heap by Storing Addresses in the… 51 min · Video
9. How a Code Snippet is Translated into Assembly Instructions, Store, Load, and ALU Operations, Assembly Optimizations for 4-Byte Addresses, Context-Insensitive Code Translation, Overriding the 4-Byte Default in Assembly Instructions,… 52 min · Video
10. More Detail about Activation Records - Layout of Memory During a Function Call, How the Return Address of a Function is Stored on the Stack, Example Showing How an Activation Record is Constructed on the Stack, Setting Up Function… 49 min · Video
11. Moving from C Code Generation to C++ Code Generation: Basic Swap Example, Code Generation for the Pointer Swap Function, Code Generation for the C++ Version Of Swap Using References, Which Are Treated as Automatically Dereferenced… 52 min · Video
12. Preprocessing Commands - #Define as a Glorified Find and Replace, Preprocessing Macros - Preprocessor Commands With Arguments, Example of Macro Usage in the Vector assignment to Calculate the Address of the Nth Element, Assert Macro… 50 min · Video
13. Review of Compilation Process of a Simple Program Into a .O File, Effect of Commenting Out a C Standard Library .H File on the Resulting Translation Unit, How Gcc Infers a Prototype When None Is Found and the .O File Remains the Same, How… 52 min · Video
14. Example in Which Writing Past the End of Array Causes the Return Address of the Function to be Overwritten, Leading to An Infinite Loop, Example in Which Data Is Incorrectly Shared between Two Different Functions, But Can Still be Printed… 45 min · Video
15. Transitioning from Sequential Programming to Concurrent Programming in the Ticket Sale Example, Problems with the Sequential Model, Threading Interface, Rewriting the Ticket Example to Use It, Adding a Randomized Threadsleep Call to the… 53 min · Video
16. Review of Semaphore Syntax, Semaphoresignal and Semaphorewait, Semaphore Usage in the Multithreaded Selltickets Function (Protecting a Critical Region), Example of a Race Conditions Where Two Ticket agents Sell the Same Ticket, How the… 52 min · Video
17. Review of the Dining Philosopher Problem, Modeling Each Philosopher as a Thread, How Deadlock Can Result, How Deadlock Can be Eliminated By Limiting the Number of Philosophers That Can Eat at Once Using a Semaphore, Using a Global… 49 min · Video
18. Guest Lecturer, Setup of the Ice Cream Store Problem, with Customer, Cashier, Clerk, and Manager Threads, The Different Constraints on the Various Types of Threads, Writing the Main Function, Spawning the Various Threads, Handling the… 52 min · Video
19. Imperative/Procedural Paradigms (C) and Object-Oriented Paradigm(C++), Introduction to the Functional Paradigm (Scheme), Which Is Based on Synthesizing the Return Values of Functions, Example of a Scheme Function Definition that Converts… 52 min · Video
20. Car-Cdr Recursion Problem that Returns the Sum of Every Element in a List of Integers, How Scheme Checks Type During Run-Time Rather than Compilation, Recursive Implementation of the Fibonacci Function in Scheme, Example that Illustrates… 52 min · Video
21. Introduction to the Kawa Development Environment: Evaluation of Expressions, Loading Function Definitions From a .Scm File, Mapping Arbitrary Unary Functions Over Lists in Scheme Using the Map Operation, Mapping List Functions (Car, Cdr)… 50 min · Video
22. Writing a Recursive Power Set Function in Scheme, Using a Lambda Mapping Function that Cons-Es the Car to Every Element in the Power-Set of the Cdr to Make the Recursive Step in the Power-Set Function, Using a Let Binding to Cause… 53 min · Video
23. Scheme Memory Model - How Scheme Instructions Synthesize Linked Lists Behind the Scenes and Perform Operations on Them, Two Different Ways of Laying Out A List In Memory, One With Memory Aliasing and One Without, The Scheme Equivalent of… 50 min · Video
24. Overarching Features of Python: Scripting Language, Imperative, Object-Oriented, Functional, More Python Overview - Dynamic Typing, Use of Whitespace and Tabs, Python Environment, Execution of Basic Statements, Calling Methods Using… 49 min · Video
25. Rewriting RSG to Illustrate all Three Paradigms and Lambdas in Python, How Objects Are Implemented in Python, Python Dictionary Implementation, Writing an RSG Grammar in Python Using A Dictionary and Lists, Expanding the Start Terminal… 49 min · Video
26. XML Processing and Python - Two Different XML Processing Models, Example XML Fragment, How an XML Parser Uses Tag Handlers to Break Up an XML Stream, How Python Can Parse XML Streams Using Urlopen, Make_Parser, and Contenthandler,… 50 min · Video
27. Guest Lecturer: Sasha Rush, Haskell History, Safeguards in Haskell that Avoid Runtime Errors, Expressive Functions in Haskell, Speed of Haskell, Haskell Fibonacci Sequence in One Line Using Lazy Evaluation, How Lazy Evaluation Allows if… 58 min · Video